Fairer

Eighteenth-Century Poetry 3e

Herausgegeben von Fairer, David; Gerrard, Christine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available inan expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 inauthoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.

Balanced to reflect current interests and"favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch,Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as wellas less familiar material, offering a variety of voices andnew directions for research and learning
Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and theinclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, MehetabelWright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting newecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on theart of writing
Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, fullfoot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and avisually appealing text design

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118824750
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 686
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1163g
• ISBN-13: 9781118824757
• ISBN-10: 111882475X
• Artikelnr.: 41521992

Autorenporträt

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (2009) traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, building on the concerns of his previous comprehensive study, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (2003). He is also the author of The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989) and Pope's Imagination (1984), and editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) and Pope: New Contexts (1990). Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently edited volume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) which follows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She is the editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents by Theme xi Alphabetical List of Authors xxi Chronology
of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii Introduction xxv Preface to Third
Edition xxvii Preface to Second Edition xxix Editorial Procedures xxx Text
xxxi Acknowledgements xxxii 1 Women's Role in Society 2 Beauty and Vanity 3
Love and Courtship 4 Marriage 5 Mothers and Children 6 Humans and Animals 7
The Natural World 8 Urban Life 9 Houses and Gardens 10 Rural Life and
Labour 11 Social Change 12 Nocturnal Meditation 13 The Role of the Poet 14
Literary Patronage and the Economics of Authorship 15 Autobiography 16
Recovering the Past 17 Contemplating Death 18 Madness 19 Visions 20 The
Imagination 21 Liberty 22 God in Nature 23 Wealth and Poverty 24 Art and
Nature 25 Portraits 26 Music 27 Letters 28 Politics, Power, and the State
29 Lyric

Rezensionen

"Fairer and Gerrard's third edition of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is simply the one and only anthology to use when teaching 18th-Century British Poetry. The selections are judicious but wide-ranging, offering readers the traditional canonical figures as well as newly-recuperated poets, both male and female. The annotations are superbly informative and authoritative. Bravissimo!" --John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania